"You've done yourself credit, boy," said the chief policeman. "When I have a difficult case I'll send for you."
"You are giving me more credit than I deserve," said Dan, modestly.
"If I ever get out of jail, I'll remember you," said Bill, scowling. "I wouldn't have minded so much if it had been a man, but to be laid by the heels by a boy like you—that's enough to make me sick."
"You've said enough, my man," said the policeman who had him in charge. "Come along, will you?"
The two prisoners, escorted by their captors, made their unwilling way to the station-house. They were duly tried, and were sentenced to a ten years' term of imprisonment.
As for Talbot, he tried to have it believed that he took the money found on him because he distrusted the honesty of the janitor; but this statement fell to the ground before Dan's testimony and that of Bill's wife.
He, too, received a heavy sentence, and it was felt that he only got his just deserts.
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On the morning after the events recorded above, Mr. Rogers called Dan into the counting-room.